Lady Gaga news has reported that the singer claims jazz icon Tony Bennett "saved her life", and the pop diva revealed how she almost quit her music career prior to the "Cheek To Cheek" jazz collaboration.

A feature in Parade reported how the "Born This Way" singer got distraught following mixed reviews from her Artpop Album. ''Six months ago I didn't even want to sing any more. I was so sad. I couldn't sleep. I felt dead," Lady Gaga said in the news feature.

The controversial musician also revealed: ''I'm not going to say any names, but people get irrational when it comes to money. If you help an artist, it doesn't give you the right, once the artist is big, to take advantage of them.''

The 28-year-old singer then told Parade how she went on to collaborate with 88-year-old jazz legend Tony Bennett. The two are busy with their upcoming jazz album entitled "Cheek To Cheek".

Lady Gaga confessed: ''I tell Tony every day that he saved my life. He wanted nothing but my friendship and my voice.''

Lady Gaga news reported that the hitmaker has slammed the music industry for allegedly "controlling" her. In a report from Entertainment Wise, the singer even called her pop days "robotic", and explained why she has shifted to jazz music.

Lady Gaga said she felt that her voice has been "controlled" too much in the past, and that the amount of auto-tuning in her music has made her sound "robotic".

''Since 'The Fame', 'The Fame Monster' and 'Born This Way', they've been auto-tuning it more, or changing the timbre. They take the vibrato out so you sound like a robot," Lady Gaga said in the news reported by Entertainment Wise.

The controversial musician admitted: ''They really control you especially in the beginning."

"Although it was still my songs, and I still had a lot to say about the production, the vocal was something that they really, really wanted to control," Lady Gaga confessed.

The hit singer and fashion icon expressed: ''So my vocal presence has been kind of the smallest presence about me for a long time. So everything else becomes the focal point.''